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Tag: Cycling

  • Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Preview

    The Tadej Pogacar Show on Repeat. The next World Tour stage race of the year gets going on Monday, March 18th. The Volta is one of the oldest races in the world and usually a really good one. Last year R&R had an epic duel with the Slovenian taking a narrow victory partially due to…

  • Milano-Sanremo Preview

    Every year, it’s the first Monument on the calendar. The 115th Milano-Sanremo is Saturday, March 16. Before we dive into this year’s edition, here’s a question for both casual and hardcore cycling fans: What is a Monument? Well one answer, as Patrick Broe of the Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast put it, is “I don’t know”.…

  • Weekly Recap

    Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico took place this week. Paris-Nice was the more interesting of the two with a showdown between Remco and Roglic and a host of other top up-and-comers in the race. It also had a better parcours than Tirreno, which was a one-horse race with Jonas in the ranks. Unfortunately, I never got around…

  • Paris-Nice Preview

    Another Roglic-Remco early season face-off after Catalunya last year. Stage One took place yesterday, and Stage Two is currently going on. I won’t spoil what happened yet, but I’ll preview the remaining stages. Stage Three is a 27km Team Time Trial with a few small hills. They won’t affect the outcome, this is all about…

  • Strade Bianche Preview

    This is quite possibly the most beautiful race on the entire calendar and also one of the newest (this will be the 18th edition). The race is 215 kilometers from Siena to Siena with 3,669 meters of elevation gain, but critically, 15 gravel sectors with steep uphills and downhills. The name of the race literally…

  • Weekly Recap

    It was another jam-packed week with a WorldTour stage race and a season opener for one of the Big Four. This will be brief due to its tardiness and the imperative of getting Strade Bianchi, Paris-Nice, and Tirreno-Adriatico previews up in short order. In the UAE Tour, there were four pan-flat sprint stages, three won…

  • Opening Weekend Recap

    Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne comprise the “Opening Weekend” of Flemish Classics each year at the end of February. Omloop is the more prestigious of the two and usually more exciting, but this year, Kuurne was better, at least in my view. Visma | Lease a Bike came into both races with a terrifyingly strong…

  • Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Preview

    The Belgian Cobbled Classics season is upon us. It goes like this every year, it seems: January and early February, those arctic, gloomy weeks commencing each year, drag out for an eternity, then all of a sudden, spring comes in rapid order. And with it, some of the best bike racing on the calendar. That’s…

  • Weekly Recap

    Another week packed with action. I’m a little late getting this up, but enjoy nonetheless. The one-day action for the week commenced in Spain with the Clasica Jaen, a 158km hilly, gravel-y day in Southern Spain. Wout van Aert, Sepp Kuss, Juan Ayuso were some of the big hitters on the start list. But my…

  • Weekly Recap

    Mads Pedersen is on a farming spree this year, Remco did a Remco, a new UAE Team Emirates superstar? And much more. I don’t even know the word for the number of races that took place this week (there were six at .1 level or higher on the men’s side on Saturday alone plus the…